How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Character Descriptions

La Bruja - This is the racist woman who lives in the apartment underneath the family in New York City and calls them racist names.

Carlos - The birth of this child, the first boy in two generations, helps reunite the child's mother with her own father.

Dona Charito - This character is a German woman who teaches art and lives in the same neighborhood as the family in the Dominican Republic. She was an Islander only by her marriage, having met her husband in Madrid on a tour of the Prado, the national museum.

Chucha - The family's devoted Haitian cook, who practices Voodoo, often casts spells to ward off evil spirits and sleeps in a coffin.

Edmundo Alejandro de la Torre Rodriguez - See Mundin de la Torre

Carmen de la Torre - This character is the reigning head of the family with the...